So I'm the only person that drives my car. I've been driving it for 5 months now and I never log into MBUX at startup. I logged in the other day and the seat started automatically adjusting and squeezed me in. I immediately logged out.

The only benefit I can see by logging in is to have access to the Routines menu in Settings.

Is there any other benefit to logging in each time?

(I know it saves your settings to your profile, but like I said I'm the only person that drives it, so that's not really a benefit to me)

 

If you don't login the car works much like a more traditional car. If someone does drive the car and changes anything, it will stay that way until you change them back. Not a big deal if you are the only driver, but its also not any harder to have your personal profile and for the car to automatically recognize you without you doing anything.

 

Thanks for the reply. I thought about logging in, but every time I do it automatically adjusts the seat and there's no way for me to access the saved seat setting that I have stored in my "non-logged in" profile. Unless someone knows a trick that will prevent the seat from adjusting after logging in.

I was just curious if there were any other benefits to logging in.

For example, if I get in a Mercedes C-class rental while traveling and login to that car would all of my settings for the seat & radio load in that C-class rental?

 

So the grand idea of the profile is what you mentioned in the last part of the post above. Your profile would roam to loaners and rental cars, so you get all the same settings, seat position etc. However, in reality I don't believe MB has even remotely implemented this, plus seating position would be different in different models, so not all settings would necessarily transfer between models. What would also be nice is if the subscriptions transferred as well, so you had live traffic and such in a loaner or rental, and could even use Homelink to open your garage. I sort of accomplish this with CarPlay today. When driving a loaner or rental, I just connect my phone and my personalized environment/experience transfers temporarily to the car I'm driving including being able to open/close my garage from the CarPlay dashboard. This of course also works across brands.

One thing that using the profile gives you even if you are the only driver is that you can change settings from the Mercedes app. So if you feel like changing the ambient lighting for your next drive you can do that from the phone and then the change syncs to the car when you get in and start it. Because you haven't used your profile from the beginning, all your current settings are stored as part of the guest profile. You'd have to delete your profile and create it new with the guest profile settings as the base, and then link it to the online profile. That way your seat positions and everything gets copied to the new profile. Also, you don't have to login every time you get into the car. You can set it up such that your profile is always the active profile. Logging in and out only makes sense for multiple drivers to switch the profile for whoever is driving.

 

The door button memories are not based on the profile so you could save your seat position using the door, login to your profile, use the button to return the seat to your favorite position, and let the profile sync. Then your profile login will not cause the seat to move unless its not in your preferred position.

Car to car profile transfer may be an option, but I'm not sure you can add a rental or loaner to your Mercedes Me account. May be more useful if you regularly drive multiple MBs.

 

I tried doing that for the seat, but it didn't work. I have the memory seat saved to #1 (not logged in), but after I logged in to my profile the seat started adjusting automatically. I then tried pressing #1 to return my seat to the position I had saved, but it didn't move the seat at all. I had to logout of my profile, then push #1 for the seat to readjust to my saved setting.

 

If it works like in the GLE, then the buttons on the door are unique to the profile. So #1 on one profile is different from #1 on a different profile. You are experiencing this.
If you wanted to start using profiles, you would have to do a workaround. First disable automatic seat adjustment based on profile while logged into your profile. Then logout, move the seat back to your position. Log back it, the seats should stay the same. Then turn seat adjustments back on.
If you turn the car off with a profile selected, it will start with the same profile that you had last time, so no different than not using any profile. If you are ever the only driver, than the only advantage would be being able to set settings from the app, for example ambient lighting, external lighting delay, etc. And having a nice photo shown instead of a silhouette.

 

"They" can not track you quite as much if you do not log in. There is no loss in not logging in.

 

“they” can probably track you regardless of logging in. Might as well enjoy the convenience?

 

@E53DadWagon I said "as much". Now that here in the US the police are using tax dollars to pay for cell phone data on private citizens travels...(disgusting).

I have said this MANY times on this forum...the local (to me) police got video from Tesla's with out the Tesla owners permission (or warrant for that matter). Why provide them more information? Maybe I am paranoid, this is Orwellian. More and more the cops are disgusting and the enemy of a free society. Let there be no question that any information you give to MB partners will also be given to "the man".

Now, before the "tracking your cell phone" theory....I can leave my phone at home (and frequently do).


(Edit: Okay, I am in a mood today.....this is the sock I picked this AM....)